Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not.

Not everyone who stares likes us

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

We don't fight for victory, we fight from victory.

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.